Rapid, one or two paragraph reviews of select 2018 Vancouver Fringe Festival shows! Shows: Die Hard: The Musical-ish Poly Queer Love Ballad Forget Me Not – The Alzheimer’s Whodunnit Self-ish The Shape of Things My Imagination Ran Away Without Me
Pictured (L to R): Beatrice Zeilinger, Lynda Boyd and Nicola Cavendish. Photo by David Cooper. Jessica Kim Kay Meek Arts Centre and Wing & Prayer Productions present Marion Bridge, a play about three estranged sisters and their past, present, and future. Each sister struggles and confronts events and traumas while caring for their dying mother. “Happy
Hello Players! The application for the 2018-2019 Executive Team is now open! You may be an executive member from the previous school year wanting to return or an existing club member looking to get more involved! As long as you’re a UBC student in September, you can apply to be part of our executive team for our
Pictured: Paige Louter and Éanna O’Dowd. Photograph by Jalen Laine. Jessica Kim I can safely say The Human Ear by Alexandra Wood is the most minimalist- and perhaps experimental play I watched so far. There is no set or props. Just two actors on a stage. It could have been confusing or dull at times,
Pictured: Rebecca Walters and Paul Herbert. Photo by Derek Fu Jessica Kim Dark, gritty British police drama. That’s what I got when I looked up the play beforehand. For me, this felt like something new and old at the same time. I was more used to detective dramas and novels, but it should be similar
Pictured: Kirsten Slenning and Tanja Dixon-Warren. Photo by Derek Fu. Jessica Kim It might be a little embarrassing for me to call myself a McDonagh fan after just one play and two movies, but I was still happy to add another to that list. I was especially excited because The Beauty Queen of Leenane is part
The UBC Players Club is proud to announce our co-production of Dear Elizabeth, a Vancouver Fringe Festival Production with Wunderdog Theatre! Integrating new technology with traditional theatrical conventions, Wunderdog Theatre is a Canadian theatre company that explores new ways to tell classic and critically acclaimed stories, examining the way we consume narrative in a digital
Jessica Kim “Vagrant Players Theatre Society presents a one act comedy about the politics of friendship. Washington DC twenty-somethings Stu and Ben are bored, stoned, and spending another night inexpertly dissecting senatorial vote-trading when a parking ticket sends Stu over the edge. As he plots to rid America of political misbehaviour once and for all,
An upcoming Vancouver Fringe Festival show, The Bridge, is looking for a Stage Manager! The show was most recently toured in Australia by the writers/actors Caitlin Docking and Nick Rinke, two local Vancouver theatre artists. Their original stage manager is living in Australia and they need someone to fill in for their Fringe run in September.
Die Hard: The Musical-ish (Fringe): Review
Jessica Kim What a show to start off my Fringe adventure! Well, frankly, it was a safe choice- with a classic like Die Hard (1988) and a bunch of eighties pop hits like Bon Jovi’s Livin’ On A Prayer and A-Ha’s Take On Me (kind of), it’s hard not to have an enjoyable experience. They utilized the
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